I am Rob Johnstone from Woodworker’s Journal Magazine. Most of us know how to apply wood stain to raw wood to get beautiful results but, did you know you can use that same wood stain to upgrade existing painted or stained finishes? What’s that technique called? Glazing. Glazing, this is David Mosier, he is from ZAR® Wood Stains and he is an expert on Glazing. What is glazing? Glazing is to cover an already painted or stained surface to really modify the tone of it to create more interest in it, it pops the grain and gives it a more updated look. These are already finished surfaces? Already finished surfaces and it is a simple process by applying some stain on the existing surface, whether it is your cabinet doors or hardwood floors or molding. This is a really great way to get an on trend look to old dated pieces of furniture. Let’s start with cabinet doors. Here we have two different doors, one is a painted cabinet door and one is a stained and finished cabinet door. Now this technique will modify both of these? Absolutely.
How do you decide what color to use? On lighter surfaces you want to use a darker color stain so you can see the modified tone and let the woodgrain pop. On a painted surface you can choose any color you want as long as it is darker so you can see the accent within the panel and the distressed areas. This door has been properly cleaned and it is ready to be glazed. I use foam brushes, we are going to use a black color stain and just wipe it all over the surface. You are just loading it up? Yes, just get it all through the surface, it doesn’t matter how you apply it; just get it on. Do you need to get it on every single surface? Well, it depends on what you want to do, if you just want to put it in the panel and wipe off the access, but here I am really toning this door and glazing the whole door panel. Once you cover the whole door surface, you are going to get a dry rag and wipe off the excess. And you will see that it really changes the color and tone of the door. But I can still see the grain through that color. Right, and that is what glazing is right there. So that is a door with a stain and clear finish what about the painted door? What we are going to do is glaze the inside panel and I use a foam brush and a darker colored stain; you can choose any color of stain that you want as long as it is a little darker so it accents the panel. So I can use a Chocolate Brown or an Orange or anything right? Absolutely. So I like these foam brushes because it gets right in the crack. Now, take your rag and wipe off that excess. Now I am taking a rag with a little bit of mineral spirits on it just to wipe off the residual stain where you don’t want it. So, the mineral spirits is like a solvent for this right? Yes, it just cleans it up nicely wherever you don’t want any stain.
This is a fiberglass door that was stained gray and glazed white. So really the process on this is to stain it and then you want to apply a polyurethane coating; let that dry and then glaze right on top of the polyurethane which gives you that accent glaze.
This technique can also be used on floors. Here are examples of some stained flooring that we are going to glaze using a lighter color glaze over the dark color stain and a darker color glaze on top of the lighter color stain. So we will start with the darker panel right here. It was unfinished so the first thing we did was stained it dark, once that was dry we applied a polyurethane coat. Then you let that dry. Now we are going to actually stain on the polyurethane and I am going to use a white color. It doesn’t matter how you put the stain on, you just apply it all on the whole surface, make sure you kind of rub it into the grain. Once that is on there we are going to wipe off the excess. You will see when I wipe off the excess it is only leaving in the woodgrain. That is the darker board, what color would you put on this gray one here? I am going to choose a black colored stain and it is the same process just get it on the surface and we are wiping off the excess. So it occurs to me that this is a fresh application of a stain, poly and now this glaze. I’ve got this floor that use to have a two-tone color but now it is just one tone color. A lot of prefinished flooring comes with a two-tone and eventually that gets worn out and you want to refinish it, well to get that same look, you are going to want to use the same exact technique. Now once this glaze coat is dry you are going to want to protect it by applying one or two more coats of ZAR® Polyurethane. So just like any other floor at that point? That is right. So these are some great results we got with glazing and the cool thing to me it is the same ZAR® Stains I have been using for years. If I was interested in doing this where can I find the products to make that happen? You can go to our website at zar.com. That is it from here, thanks for watching.

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